Johnston City (Ill.)
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Name (Latin)
Johnston City (Ill.)
Other forms of name
nnaa Johnston City, Ill
Coordinates
-88.9290164 -88.9290164 37.8214039 37.8214039 (gooearth )
W0885539 W0885539 N0374914 N0374914 (geonames )
Associated country
United States
MARC
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Sources of Information
- GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 37°49ʹ14ʺN 088°55ʹ39ʺW)
- Macfarlane, W.N. The magic city of Egypt, 1991:p. v, etc. (Johnston City; coal town in Williamson Co., Ill.; began 1853 as village of Jeffersonville; later the post office designation for village chgd. to Lake Creek because there was another Jeffersonville in Illinois; in 1894 Johnston City was surveyed and platted a mile to the west of Jeffersonville, which continued to exist separately and was known by the nickname "Shakerag"; incorporated in 1896 [no publs. for earlier names in LC database])
- Roberts, P. Glimpses of the ... 1977 (subj.)t.p. (Johnston City, Illinois) p. 2 (at the time of the founding of Johnston City, it was called Shakerag [no publs. in LC])
- Macfarlane, W.N. The magic city of Egypt, 1991:p. v, etc. (Johnston City; coal town in Williamson Co., Ill.; began 1853 as village of Jeffersonville; later the post office designation for village chgd. to Lake Creek because there was another Jeffersonville in Illinois; in 1894 JohnstonCity was surveyed and platted a mile to the west of Jeffersonville, which continued to exist separately and was known by the nickname "Shakerag"; incorporated in 1896 [no publs. for earlier names in LC database])
- Rand McNally comm. atlas 1989(Johnston City, Illinois; Williamson [county])